What is a first lady, really? It is taken for granted that our national leaders will have someone on their arm, almost always a woman. This person will represent the softer side of power and be ever present, willingly secondary, and highly scrutinized. She will diligently represent her country nationally and internationally. And she’ll do it with no job…
Bronwen Jervis
Bronwen Jervis previously worked as a literary assistant to John Irving and as a speechwriter for Justin Trudeau.
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Whenever I saw Stephen King’s novels on bookshelves, I looked right past them. That old adage about covers aside, the visual vernacular of King always screamed gory, corny, and loaded with cheap thrills. Dark colours and creepy illustrations, paired with the author’s name in a dominating font, suggested predictable offerings, anodyne adrenaline spikes — a sort of automated user…